Android-powered Kogan Agora meets Mr. Blurrycam on way to CES debut

Okay, yes, we were mad skeptical that the Agora would ever see the light of day, and you know what? This is one situation where we're absolutely delighted to be proven wrong. Kogan's homegrown Android handset just got pictured in the wild -- the first time we've seen anything but a render -- on its way to a supposed CES debut. Rest assured: if it's really going to be meandering around Vegas this week, we will hunt it down.

[DonutYankee Posted Jan 5th 2009 10:50PM]

The image on the screen is not aligned with the actual screen border. WTF?

[Student Driver Posted Jan 6th 2009 9:49AM]

The icon on the desktop doesn't look like it's properly aligned either; like the text is partially below that mirrored border. Strange.

[jdwme Posted Jan 5th 2009 11:35PM]

Are you talking about how it looks like there's stuff on the bottom of the screen? That's the apps tab and when in landscape mode like that you have to draw your finger up to show the other applications.

[Vuki Posted Jan 7th 2009 12:40AM]

Just to confirm, the Kogan Agora in these pictures is in fact a pre-production model. The production model will have a black bezel, not the silver that you can see here.

You should be able to see some video footage of it in use running Android very shortly. Stay tuned!

Vuki
Media representative for Kogan Technologies

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 7th 2009 6:41AM]

Its not aligned cause that is the sliding menu that has poped out from the left :) You hit that arrow tab and it will slide back. Thats how it is on even the android emu. Need a device....

Speaking about Slide'ing.. everyone (globally) should be able to buy/download apps via their SAM from SlideME.org by next week as they are opening up their store internationally. Just hope we start seeing more apps being developed.